Posted on 03/31/2022 4:51:02 AM PDT by devane617
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier.
That’s according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending.
The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services.
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The proverbial slap on the wrist, five years later.
This is like handing me a 5 cent speeding ticket.
Well, that’s all settled then. No reason to ever speak of this again, I suppose.
Shouldn’t the fine have included all the tax dollars wasted investigating the fake dossier?
Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 ….
$130k wrist slap, for an opposition party putting a sitting US President and the entire country through h3##, for YEARS???
They should all be in jail. Rotting.
But....but....they aren’t GUILTY.
Your damn right it should… But that was our money so no biggie. Look what they are doing investigating Jan 6th. All the impeachments. It’s like they have to blow a certain amount of our money.
This is all about short circuiting Durham -
$113K is beyond laughable. The DNC probably has/had 50 donors if not 200 donors (WAG) who contributed that much in exchange for a chicken dinner at a fancy hotel.
I’m trying to be optimistic.
Just by paying these fines, Clinton and Perkins and Sussman and whoever else is involved have ADMITTED THAT IT WAS DONE...THAT IT WAS PAID FOR...THAT THEY LIED ABOUT THE WHOLE PLAN...
And that, to me, presents POSSIBILITIES for our side to pursue the responsibility and punishment for all the crimes that were committed.
And that’s how I sleep at night.
Calling their crimes “old news” was the traditional CLinton ploy.
“Just by paying these fines, Clinton and Perkins and Sussman and whoever else...”
That’s how it works for you and I, but not the Clinton’s or the Left in general.
You are exactly right!
This is an admission of guilt and legally lends credence to what Trump has been saying for years!
Can they reverse the Trump Impeachment since it was false charges?
AGREE?????
Doesn’t this tacit admission to guilt open them to civil lawsuit?
I like your positive thinking, and, I sure hope you are right, Maris!
Hopefully, Trump and the RNC can sue the snot out of them AND have charges pressed.
Wouldn’t that be a beautiful double whammy, for these crooks?
An outrage.
He still won, but CNN, MSNDNC, NYT, NPR pervasively and perversely flood the waves that Trump cheated with Russia’s help and was illegitimate and must be blocked at all levels. It had the effect of preventing the Democrats from falling into despair, instead cranking the anger level til today. The 2018 disaster at the state and dc level could be blamed on this. We needed long sentence s here for real justice.
Probably baked into the —agreement—
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